I’ve recently been working on a project in after effects which required some easing in the style of the back easing equation in flash, admittedly i could have keyframed it or scripted it myself but i was hoping there would be a better solution instead of having to do it all myself.

Luckily i’ve managed to find something called Ease and Whizz which is basically the flash easing equations converted for After Effects all packaged up in a nice user interface panel that you can easily apply to any number of keyframes.  I’ve played with it a bit and i’m pretty impressed with it, think i’ll be using it alot more in the future!

Since i started learning ActionScript a few months ago i’ve been getting into the idea of 3D and 3D interfaces in Flash. As flash hasn’t got any built in 3D classes there are quite a few projects out there to extend Flash’s 3D capabilites, including the excellent Papervision which uses low res 3d models built in something like 3DS Max or Maya and there also a vector 3d engine by mathieu badimon.

Now that i’ve learnt some actionscript i want to see if i can integrate some of these into some of the Flash/Actionscript things i do, as well as finding a way to integrate into a future version of my Portfolio Site

I’ve been learning how to use ActionScript in Flash recently, and i’ve managed to build myself a game of hangman!

Try it below!

I’ve been reading a little bit about Adobe Air, Adobe’s new platform for having web applications on the desktop with the need for a browser.

In a Nutshell, Air allows you to use your existing html/css, flash and flex skills and use them to create applications to run directly from the desktop. From the examples of seen it seems very handy to create widget type applications rather than full blown applications, however i wouldn’t say you can’t make full blown applications with it.

The only downside of the Air platform is that you still have to install Adobe Air first to you operating system bfore you can run any of the applications, this however is true of most of these kind of platforms such as Microsoft’s Silverlight.

Can i see it getting bigger? Yes probably but what would help with platforms like this is if they came pre installed with operating systems so you could just download and run the applications.

I realise that Audi’s Rhythm of Lines advert has been around a while now and when it was released i was certainly impressed by it.

However today i went on the rhythm of lines website today and i am certainly impressed by that too! Not only does it give you the ability to compose your own ‘rhythm of lines’ i also think it’s fantastic use of flash and and 3d space in flash. I wonder what the actionscript is like for something like that.

Speaking of impressive car adverts i also recently saw the Honda ‘Cog’ advert again and it impresses me every time, especially because its all done in two takes, with s seamless join in the middle.